The Wild Fun Farm

Haki Farm Collective is at Folklife today!

Creepy ants!

Wonderful balms and salves are for sale at the WFF. 4 ounces $20 containers for lavender salve, cocoa butter balms, Feel. Better. Salve for dry patches and scrapes, Calendula Salve, $12 for Farmers lotion bar and $5 for a 1 ounce Tattoo Balm. All made with home grown herbs. There is even something for Farm Dogs! . [email protected].

Spring is getting closer and closer!

Come and shop at the cutest, most wonderful, BIPOC farm stand on Cook Road in Yelm. Produce, herbs, garlic, onions, and bracelets made by the Maasai (we support women and girls through sales of jewelry). 19511 Cook Road SE, Yelm WA. Open Fri-Sun 10 am to 7 pm. Honor box: cash or checks. Venmo as well.

Farm stand is open today! Delicious cucumbers, summer squash, apples, beets, bracelets and sunflowers oh my!!

The Wild Fun Farm Shenanigans: seed saving!

I used to can like my mom. My dad, knowing she had a house to care for, a farm, cows to milk, a garden that needed tending would bring home crates of peaches, pears and other fruits and vegetables in one big truck load. My mom canned for weeks while tending to the farm and 7 children. I used to think I also had to do big lots at a time…I got a cookbook on small batch canning. As things come in you can do a jar or four in an evening. You can roast your veg to put in the freezer one bag at a time. When things in the fridge need attention now…can it up. An hour of time and done. Tonight I had some tomatoes that needed attention, along with some rutabagas, three apples and a peach. Canned. Done. Roasted veg for freezer using the air fryer done. Small batches…

Sale day at the farm. 19511 Cook Road SE, Yelm, WA. Herbs, cukes, potatoes., squash. Dried herbs, salves, balms and oils can be shipped if you want to order on line. PM for pricing and shipping info.

Tomatoes!!!!!

Life is good in summer in the Pacific Northwest and at The Wild Fun Farm. After a busy day of farming and setting up the farm stand we went to Cousin Donald’s for dinner.

Opening day!!!!

The Wild Fun Farm’s Farm Stand is open for business!
Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 7 pm starting July 7, 2023. Price list available at stand. Honesty box or pay by Venmo -5 code 9608.

We’re starting out with culinary and medicinal herbs, tinctures, oils and products from the Karibu Maasai foundation that supports families and children’s education in Kenya.

19511 Cook Road SE, Yelm WA

It wasn’t wild but it was fun! Our morning visitor.

The neighbor kids are paid to help out at The Wild Fun Farm and two tasks are cleaning goat pens and the chicken house. They are to put spoiled hay and straw into the composter which has three bins. Normally you fill one bin then let that break down some then move to the second. After bin #2 breaks down you move the compost to bin #3 to use. Well they don’t do that. They fill all the bins no matter how I show or tell them. So today my task is to sort this back out by clearing the bins. Then reorganizing it all so it goes back to being a three bin system. Bin #1 has a mat of straw on top so after scraping at that I find “black gold” below. No matter how badly the compost is put in a bin it does break down. I still would like a three bin system though. So here I go again…

Lavender scented shea butter lotion bars. 3 for $5.00 at The Wild Fun Farm. .com

Turkey Bone Broth. Thick and oh so RICH with goodness.

Just picked a fresh basket of produce for my cousins who live in the city this morning. They have amongst other delicious delights collard greens, Swiss chard, an Ailsa Craig onion, fresh red cabbage, beets, and two sleeves of delicious garlic to go with their home grown pastured poultry from A&Z farms. We are two farms who farm together, create community and believe in regenerative land management and organic practices. Our produce, flowers, and herbs are the best! farming .com &Zfarm

Lavender oil!!!!

Garlic is ready and for sale! $10 for a sleeve of three beautiful organically grown cloves.

Calendula showing out at The Wild Fun Farm.

The flowers have to work hard on this farm: bloom, self seed, mulch.

Farm Shenanigans at The Wild Fun Farm. Herbs and Nursery plants: thyme, apples, lilacs, garlic chives, oregano, garlic, saffron crocus and more.

Life is happening here at The Wild Fun Farm. The hens are happy, the food forests are being planted with food and herbs like yarrrow, strawberries, pollinators, and raspberries. The market gardens are 80% planted and the propagation house over runs with starts for succession planting.

Farm Shenanigans: my 2000 Toyota Tundra “Negrita” which was daily commuter has cleared over 300, 000 miles and I am so proud. She is battered on the outside but her engine is great and I have spent less than $2k in repair since I have owned her. She gets regular oil changes and tuneups. I’m proud of this old pony/farm truck!

Sometimes a farmer need the right helpers.

Market gardens going in April 2022.

Chick-a-Biddee

Farm Shenanigans: ducklings and chicks came home from Tractor Supply yesterday. We are weeding and planting and also transplanting perennials from the flowerbeds to the food forests. Too many dogs trampling things.

It’s seed catalog time! Spring is definitely on the way.